Silicon Valley’s Next Big Idea: Untreated Drinking Water

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The new obscure health trend among the rich is drinking “raw” water, which is water that hasn’t been filtered or treated in any way. Experts are warning about potential hazards such as bacteria and parasites, yet Silicon Valley is eager to support the startups out there delivering and popularizing untreated water.

After his widely-maligned startup Juicero shut down in September, founder Doug Evans immediately hopped on a much more obscure health trend. While at Burning Man, he went on a 10-day cleanse drinking only “raw” water – that is, water that is unfiltered and untreated in any way. Now, the company that supplied Evans’ water, Live Water, is among those attracting attention and investment from Silicon Valley’s health-conscious elite.
 
I wonder if this will be their flag if they secede?
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It's unsterilized spring water. Not a big deal unless someone poisons the well, either literally or figuratively.
 
I drank the local river water once, best damn laxative in the world, I should bottle it, I'LL BE RICH!
 
I live pretty rural and have a 200' well... I guess I'm super cool now? I skimmed the article expecting it to say they were getting the water from a risky place (farm drainage or something, lol)..

Anyone want to buy my water for $5 a gallon? I have a shit ton of it if you want to buy in bulk!
 
I inherited a very large home built by grandfather (he had seven children, which is why it is so large). He did something quite clever I thought: he built the house around the well. In the middle of the home in a small room under the staircase is an electric well pump. It has been disconnected for years, but I bet it would still work if I fired it up. All the free untreated drinking water one can ask for; take that Cali-weirdos.
 
While drinking chlorine and iodine aren't on the top of my list of favorite things to do, drinking untreated water just seems crazy. I even filter my water in the high country "above 5000 feet" to be sure. That last thing I want is an episode of the squirts and vomiting when miles from a road and hours from a hospital.

If you want "Raw" water, go the Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, Mexico, etc., and drink the tap water. Your entire outlook on untreated water will change forever.

Now, water that has been UV treated and microscopically filtered sounds like a good idea.
 
My old house had an aerobic septic system. It was comprised of three tanks. The first tank got the raw sewage and had a motor to "chop it up" and add oxygen to the shit. The second tank, not so sure - but I think the bacteria did a bit of work. The third tank was the discharge unit. When "water" left this tank, it was considered clean by the sanitation department and discharged into a creek, which ran into a river.
I will say I never stepped foot in that creek. All the houses on my street had the same system. I remember my neighbors kids used to play in it. I was always wondering what the hell they were thinking?
Anyway, have at it. It's technically clean - certified by the health department. (I did get inspected on an annual basis. Always thought that was shitty job...)

I have city water now and city sewage. I'm happy to flush my crap away and let it get processed (which is probably not a whole lot different, except for the scale, than my old system...)
 
juciero guy should've taken a few more years off after his total failure...
 
meh, liberal residents of a blue state want to drink unflitered and untreated water?

They can drink from a cease pool for all I care. Have the illegals bring them some of their water with them while they are at it.



Drink your heart out California!!
 
I live out here in California and it gets crazier, weirder, and more expensive every week.

I'm old enough to remember when the start was conservative, long before the bay area and Berkeley took over the culture & government.

Now they are talking free health care for illegals and Pot will be legal as of tomorrow. We already have the already largest homeless population in the country and it will likely double in the next few years.

I just hope I can retire, sell my house, and move to another state before it all comes crashing down.

Biggest problem is figuring out which state to move to that is stable enough to not be corrupted by all the leftist fleeing California after they destroyed it.
 
We get some untreated water from a spring up north. It's about a 40 min drive and a tap has been put into the "rock" . The water is tested by the municipality every few weeks and will test incredibly clean (It does filter through tons of rock/slate etc for some natural filtering). It's free to anyone willing to make the drive up. It is at your own risk though always, taking a similar approach and then selling it would open to a LOT of lawsuits though if a batch every gets contaminated.

It's just WATER, not a health trend. Just ensure you stay hydrated, it does not cure anything or 'cleanse' any better than your treated tap water which I drink all the time too.
 
On exposure to shigella: "Waiter? Excuse me, waiter? There's fecal matter in my water!"

On a perhaps related note, I wonder if it can come out of tap; and if so, whether you can be infected by drinking it:

Your brain on Ameoba:

Symptoms show after a week, including headache, fever, nausea, and vomiting. After the infection makes its way to the brain, symptoms turn to stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, seizures and death:

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Isn't is the same group of people that get brain eating amoebas from their Neti pots?

Do people not realize that access to clean water is arguably the biggest factor in what makes a modern country not a diarrhea filled nightmare zone?
 
ha ha ... this is great.
Once drank some raw when hiking Mt Rainer. Even though signs at the trail head warned of Giardia, figured it was OK since the water was melting off a glacier not far above me. Big mistake. Took a few days to hit me - then BAM!. Can say with extreme conviction that pissing out your ass while on a jumbo jet sucks, big time. Hooray for protozoa :sick:
 
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